He is Risen! Empty Tomb Craft

How about a fun craft for Easter?  

A couple months ago, I saw a drink tray, and i thought to myself, "That could work well for the empty tomb!"  (I was told that this is how you know somebody is a Sunday School teacher!  Thanks, Lindsay! haha!!)

I cut each of the 4 cup holders out -yup, the drink trays from fast food restaurants- and flipped them upside down.  One of the sides, I cut a larger circular opening for the opening of the tomb.

I hot glued it to a foamboard base cut to size. 

We added some moss and little flowers wherever the kids liked on theirs.  The moss is quite hairy and crazy.  Stamp it down with your fingers and let the kids cut the trimmings.  My class loved giving their grass haircuts after it was hot glued on! 

We used sticks and grapevines (from our backyard) for the cross. 

The moms pulled together to bring in the stone that rolled away.  We hot glued those in place.  Some preferred just to use rolled brown paper bag as you can see in this picture.  That was easier to write, "His is Risen" on, but some liked the authentic stone.  

You can even see the folded linen cloth inside!  That was just a cut piece from an old, white pillowcase.

So that's what we made in Sunday School today!

This is an inexpensive, fun project you can do with kids this week to remember how Jesus loves us so much He died to forgive our sins, and our hope and joy is in the fact that He lives!!